Empire's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 6,820 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
| Highest review score: | Oppenheimer | |
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| Lowest review score: | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,008 out of 6820
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Mixed: 3,654 out of 6820
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Negative: 158 out of 6820
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Ben Travis
It’ll pass the time easily enough for young viewers, but everyone else will wish they were spirited away on a more sophisticated adventure.- Empire
- Posted Jul 30, 2021
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Chris Hewitt (1)
It’s an impressively starry cast, but sadly, this lacks the charm, wit and, yes, magic of the original. You’ll like it, not a lot.- Empire
- Posted Jun 27, 2016
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Helen O'Hara
This strict adherence to formula is wearing for anyone over ten, but worse is Lohan.- Empire
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Kim Newman
Fans can console themselves with some disorientating creepiness as half-glimpsed monsters swarm and the fine melodramatic performances. But as the film descends into a babbling wreck you start to wonder whatever became of the directing talent that gave us Dark Star, Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween and The Thing.- Empire
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Kim Newman
An ordinary, forgettable horror film. Even the Devil deserves more than this.- Empire
- Posted Jan 16, 2014
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Angie Errigo
While not wishing to be facetious about women and children held against their will in any country, this tearjerker is strictly TV movie for a wet Wednesday stuff.- Empire
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John Nugent
A bit of an odd one, an action-comedy throwback that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Still, it bodes well for Pierce Brosnan’s new phase as a grey-haired action star.- Empire
- Posted Mar 18, 2024
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Nick de Semlyen
The film strains in two different directions, half trying to stay true to its based-on-fact roots, half wanting to ditch all that and become a ridiculous farce.- Empire
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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Angie Errigo
Vintage Lee visual flourishes and a couple of chucklesome fantasies spoofing a 70s sitcom and blaxploitation flicks make this more watchable than the infuriatingly pointless content warrants.- Empire
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Ben Travis
For all its originality, O’Dessa can’t help but get tangled up in its own mythology, dragged down by a romance that never sizzles.- Empire
- Posted Mar 28, 2025
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Olly Richards
If you came for cute canines you’ll get them, but you’d get more entertainment from an hour of dog videos on YouTube.- Empire
- Posted May 21, 2018
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John Nugent
Hugely impressive musical and dance performances from the two young men playing Michael Jackson cannot shake off the uncomfortable fact that there is an entire other side to the pop star’s story which is entirely conspicuous by its absence here.- Empire
- Posted Apr 21, 2026
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Ian Nathan
As a light family sports feel-good this works but don't look for anything more.- Empire
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Beth Webb
Even when supercharged by Kirby’s unwavering star power, this distractingly muddled stab at social commentary baked into a hardboiled thriller lacks the momentum to make it to the morning.- Empire
- Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Caroline Westbrook
Despite the stars best efforts this is neither funny or original.- Empire
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While this may not quite be a stake through the heart, Wes Craven's curious mix of the comic and the horrific is another nail in Eddie Murphy's career coffin.- Empire
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William Thomas
A sadly lightweight spar through rule-breaking cop conventions that doesn't utilise it's star's bulk to any great effect.- Empire
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Dan Jolin
Not the return to form you might have been hoping for. Its story might cover all the same beats as the 2003 original, but there’s little of that film’s spark or spirit.- Empire
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Chris Hewitt (1)
Destined to be a big drinking game — take a sip when Broadbent bites his sandwich — but little else, this feels like a major missed opportunity.- Empire
- Posted May 5, 2015
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James White
Fitfully funny but failing to really build to much of anything, The Boss is mostly a bust. Even its main character would have a hard time buying it.- Empire
- Posted Jun 6, 2016
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Ian Nathan
This is supposed to be serious hard-hitting but with most prehistoric depictions, only manages either school reconstruction or parody.- Empire
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Jonathan Pile
A great cast is let down by a script that fails to provide a compelling mystery to solve. Never mind as a big-screen production, this would be disappointing as a BBC mini-series.- Empire
- Posted Sep 4, 2017
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Ian Freer
Lacking anything approaching originality, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is a generic, by-the-numbers action-comedy sequel. Praise be for Hayek, who at least gives it gusto.- Empire
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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John Nugent
Plenty of shock and gore, and David Harbour is more than worthy to wear the horns. But this is a reboot in need of a reboot.- Empire
- Posted Apr 11, 2019
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David Parkinson
Notwithstanding the efforts of a game cast, this is a grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history by turning it into a piece of white-knuckle entertainment.- Empire
- Posted Jun 20, 2016
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Olly Richards
Inspired by The Graduate it may be, but despite Aniston’s charm, this confused comedy will not be seducing anybody.- Empire
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There are some engaging moments, but director Ken Kwapis fails to achieve a distinctive tone.- Empire
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Beth Webb
Spencer and McCarthy are the superheroes we deserve, but are capable of so much more than bowel-movement jokes in this tepid and formulaic buddy romp.- Empire
- Posted Apr 9, 2021
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